Guided activities in senior science: by George L. Bush, Theodore W. Ptacek, and John Kovats, Jr. 251 pages, 19 × 24 cms. New York, American Book Company, 1937

✍ Scribed by R.H. Oppermann

• Book ID: 104131009
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1937
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 62 KB
• Volume: 224
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(37)90565-9

✦ Synopsis

saturation, conjugation, alkyl substitution, cyclic structures, and substitutions are well brought out. The mechanism of the structure is paramount. With regard to catalysis there is given a very useful table listing substances known to polymerize with catalysts, reaction conditions, and products. The kinetic approach to reaction mechanisms is then discussed, which gives a graphic notion of the way it occurs. The polymer structure is treated in considerable detail. In discussing the nature of liquids the viewpoint is primarily kinetic rather than that of structural organic chemistry.

The last three chapters of the book are devoted to the applications of polymerization in the rubber, synthetic resin, and the petroleum industry. Each of these may be taken as a representative review of the present state of our knowledge.

The work as a whole furnishes a well digested view" of this important subject, backed up by a great mass of references suitably recorded.

R. H. OPPERMANN.